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From: george@mnetor.UUCP (George Hart)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Patent Office Closure
Message-ID: <937@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Jun-85 10:31:24 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  5 10:31:24 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 5-Jun-85 11:19:16 EDT
Organization: Computer X (CANADA) Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Jim meant to post this as a followup but unintentionally replied to me instead
so I am posting it on his behalf.

> From utcs!lsuc!jimomura Tue Jun  4 23:48:39 1985
> Received: by mnetor.UUCP (4.12/4.7)
> 	id AA23811; Tue, 4 Jun 85 23:48:37 edt
> From: utcs!lsuc!jimomura
> Received: by utcs.UUCP (4.24/4.7) id AA11464; Tue, 4 Jun 85 23:41:46 edt
> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 85 23:41:46 edt
> To: utcs!mnetor!george
> Subject: Re: Re: patent office closure
> Status: R
> Newsgroups: can.politics
> In-Reply-To: <917@mnetor.UUCP>
> References: <1926@watcgl.UUCP>, <656@lsuc.UUCP> <5652@utzoo.UUCP>
> Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
> Cc: 
>      Hmmm.  I mucked this up again.  I thought I was responding in
> public, but I hit 'r' instead of 'f'.  No matter, I just thought that
> I'd like to say that having read your response after entering my own
> to Henry, that I realize my own response was covered by yours.  In
> fact, I like yours better because mine rambled a bit.  Also, you
> hit the nail on the head with Visicalc.  An excellent example of a
> probably patentable idea.  The result of Copyright law and licencing
> was that the Software Arts people had a very good chance to make all
> the money that I feel they deserved, and yet other people were able
> to write better packages (although a lot weren't in fact better or
> even cheaper) at a later date.  The net result => Lotus 123 and
> arguably Framework.  Clearly we would not have such a rich array
> of better software to choose from if Software Arts had gotten a patent.
>  
>      If you can transfer this to the 'news' system feel free.
>  
>                                       Cheers! -- Jim O.
> 
> 
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Regards,

George Hart, Computer X Canada Ltd.
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